Tin Mines Endurance Challenge 2022
Tin Mines Endurance Challenge ("TMEC") 2022 was an endurance game whereby the participants will run in a hamster loop of 3.6km for 24 hours and try to accumulate as much loop as possible. The race venue is in Sungai Lembing, a small town located 45 minutes away from Kuantan, at the east coast of Peninsula Malaysia. Race Information: Distance & elevation gain: 3.6km (with 60m elevation gain) per loop Cut off Time: 24 hours (there were 6h, 12h and 24h categories available) Weather: Weather was warm for 1-2 hours after flagged off, then it became chill and drizzling, and ultimately became heavy rain due to monsoon. This was my first official endurance race, unfortunately I was lack of training one-two months before the race due to sickness. I started the race with run-walk-run strategy and planned to go slow and maintain at the average pace required to achieve 140km over 24 hours. Nevertheless my average pace started to drop after 5 hours. Apparently my body was not